Major announcements from Day 1 keynote of MIX 2011

Did you miss the MIX keynote today?  If so, not to worry.  Here’s a quick summary of the major new releases and announcements:

• Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 (PP1): https://bit.ly/dXPQ2T (and try out the demos at https://ietestdrive.com)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=82cbd599-d29a-43e3-b78b-0f863d22811a
• Entity Framework 4.1: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b41c728e-9b4f-4331-a1a8-537d16c6acdf (Scott Hanselman did a very cool Code First demo where setting a [Required] attribute on a field in code automatically creates a non-nullable entry in the database and client-side validation in the webpage.)
• HTML5Labs updates (new versions of the WebSockets and IndexedDB demos and the addition of FileAPI and Media Capture API): https://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/
• Windows Azure News from MIX11: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/04/12/windows-azure-news-from-mix11.aspx
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco: https://waacceleratorumbraco.codeplex.com/

Finally, it was announced that Microsoft’s “next big developer conference” would be held from Sept 13-16 in Anaheim, California.  Save the date!